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Robert Frost Quotes about Poetry

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry, Emotion, Found

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Grief, Poetry, Political

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Poetry, Renewal, Settings

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

Ice, Poetry, Forever

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Writing, Poetry, Tennis

Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Inspiration, Poetry, Delight

Collected Poems preface (1939)

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Powerful, Writing, Poetry

1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Freedom, Poetry, Leader

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Art, Writing, Poetry

"The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

Clever, People, Poetry

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Giving, Poetry, Wish

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Writing, Play, Poetry

In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Fire, Ice, Poetry

"Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Poetry, Way, Lost

Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Book, Poetry, Common

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

War, Taken, Poetry

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Love, Knowing, Poetry

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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